Adventure Gamers
(thanks Mike Martinez), has word that a boxed version of Out of Boneville is now
available for Telltale Games' comic-inspired adventure was previously only
available via download. The boxed version is for sale online by
TellTale,
and can be purchased at a steep discount for those who bought the download
version.

Oh hey, you have a Goldfrapp link. To drag this thread even further off-topic... I absolutely loved "Velvet Mountain", but what I heard of the second album didn't do nearly so much for me. How do the subsequent ones compare stylistically? I loved the theatrical nature of the first album... it just seemed so audacious.

Third album (Supernature) is out in the UK/rest of the world, and due in the US in March, maybe? If you get an import, look for the one that had a bonus dvd of the album in 5.1...

Sounds wise, Supernature is a continuation of Black Cherry - meaning more electronic and less ambient/quiet stuff...parts of Felt I really liked (Human, Pilots, Utopia, Physical), yet other parts I couldn't seem to get into (the whole whistling thing was lost on me ).

Deep Honey and Hairy Trees (from Black Cherry) were both more in common w/ the first album. The only tracks similar to that on Supernature are Let It Take You, and Time Out From The World (and the second is a bit of a stretch). Also a great b-side on one of the Ooh La La singles called All Night Operator (Part 1) that's more in common w/ Felt...

In short, the bouncy electronic appears to be here to stay, but there's still some deviances from that, from time to time...

There's also a great live dvd set out. I'm guessing Disc 1 is from the second album tour, while the second disc is from the first tour (which might be more of our liking).

I guess it's one of those glass is half-full / half-empty type deals...

Yeah, I'm definitely a pessimist. Oh well.

Oh hey, you have a Goldfrapp link. To drag this thread even further off-topic... I absolutely loved "Velvet Mountain", but what I heard of the second album didn't do nearly so much for me. How do the subsequent ones compare stylistically? I loved the theatrical nature of the first album... it just seemed so audacious.

Well if they sold it to another publisher, then they're not really dying from the customer's perspective, are they? The customer just sees a name-change. I assumed we're talking about support for a game disappearing altogether.

And they would have nothing to 'gain', but if they were shut down in a hurry and all their staff suddenly let go and forced to go out and look for new jobs, who is going to go through the source code of all these games and create patches for the customers to download to disable the need for the game to contact the servers (which of course will also be disappearing)?

I'm not saying they would maliciously refrain from patching the games... I'm just questioning the likelihood of it actually happening.

In cases where the publisher dies odds are they'd unlock everything first

Talk about optimism.

Why wouldn't they? What do they have to gain? You think if the publisher A sells the game to another publisher (B), who in turn tries to resell the game back to people that already bought it, there won't be an apeshit riot from their "new" customers?

Discs are good for people, so long as you keep those little paper envelopes they love putting CD keys on. You know, the ones that look suspiciously like garbage...

Fallout is a bad example. The developer is gone, yes, but the publisher is still around. In cases where the publisher dies odds are they'd unlock everything first, seeing as how it's their legacy and everyone enjoys having a legacy. Even if this didn't happen, well, it wouldn't be the first time we've lost old games. Moving to XP broke a great deal of DOS games, some of which had workarounds found somewhat quickly, others which took years until programs like DosBox showed up, and still others that can't be played.

Video games aren't timeless. Sometimes they just fade away. Like so many of the early pre-gameboy cartridge based handhelds, few of which are still around in working condition.

hmmmmmmm........I can't remember the last time I got a manual with a game......at least in paper form......electronicaly it's kinda hard to get it to the bathroom to read, ya know, the monitor sitting on your lap

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Opinions are like A**holes, everybody has one and they usually stink(all except mine of course)

What if you have a game like Fallout and the company has gone under, and now you can't play it anymore? I wouldn't rule out nasty antipiracy protection on downloaded games either, unless you have to connect to the server to start it, then you have the problem of not being able to play offline.

You know, I'm getting used to downloading games now instead of going to the store. Why should I have boxes and CDs cluttering my desk when I could just get a game off Steam or Direct2Drive and uninstall and reinstall it whenever I want? I wouldn't have to worry about having the DVD/CD in my drive in order to play or have to bother with StarForce protection or anything like that. Also the save games should be stored on their servers so I can log into any computer to quickly install and play where I left off from my computer at home/work/school/etc.